TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY ACTIVITIES ( Assignment for the Geography Students of Class XII )

FUNDAMENTAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY ACTIVITIES

Q 1 Which sector provides most of the employment in
 the metro-cities of India?                                         Marks (1)
Q 2 Which sector involves high degree of innovations? 
Q 3 What is retail trading? 
Q 4 What is the meaning of KPO? 
Q 5 What is outsourcing? 
Q 6 Write down the major components of services. 
Q 7 Describe quartenary services.   
Q 8 Give an example of quaternary services. 
Q 9 What is BPO? 
Q 10 How can you measure the transport distance? 
Q 11 List three examples of non store retail selling. 
Q 12 What are chain stores? 
Q 13 Who are entrepreneurs? 
Q 14 What role is played by the quaternary activities in the industrial sector? 
Q 15 Define a node and a link with respect to transport network. 
Q 16 What do you mean by departmental stores? 
Q 17 What do you mean by gold collar professions? 
Q 18 What is the main difference between secondary and tertiary activities? 
Q 19 Why are radio and television termed as “mass media”? 
Q 20 What do you mean by transport services? What are the factors affecting transport services? 
Q 21 What are the demerits of digital divide? 
Q 22 What do you mean by a trading centre? 
Q 23 “Outsourcing is providing a lot of job opportunities in the developing countries”. Discuss. 
                                                                                    Marks (3)
Q 24 On an outline map of the world show the following:
i)  One global city from each North America, Europe and Asia
Q 25 What is a Global City? Name three global cities. 
Q 26 Name three best connected nations of the world through internet.
Q 27 What is digital divide?            
Q 28 Name the fast emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.  
Q 29 Explain retail trading service.   
Q 30 “Cities of developed and developing countries reflect marked differences in their planning and development”. Support this statement with examples. 
Q 31 Explain quaternary activities. Discuss the salient features of these activities. 

Q 32 What are the different types of services?   Marks (5)
Q 33 On the given map of the world, name and mark any four popular tourist destinations of the world.
Q 34 Explain in detail the significance of transportation and communication services.    
Q 35 Discuss the significance and growth of the service sector in modern economic development.   
Q 36 In what ways, the service sectors in developing countries are different from those in developed countries? 
Q 37 Why specialized activities of the advanced economy such as finance and insurance have a scattered location around the globe? How are they managed?